Do you think society has changed since women want to be the man of the family?

Answer 1

Let me put it this way...

Things used to be a whole lot simpler about 50 years ago.

Answer 2

Yes it has and not for the better. I'm fairliy old fashioned and even though I don't look down on families where the woman works and the man stays home with the children, I personally wouldn't want to live this way. People often say, this is the 21st century, and stop living in the past, but think about it. Why are the children of this day and age so much more disrespectful then they were 30 years ago? I think it's just that people don't want to admit it, but the world HAS changed in many ways. I'm not saying that men are bad at parenting and women are bad workers, I'm just saying the world functions a lot better the other way around. Many people will disagree with me but that's just my opinion.

Answer 3

Of course society has changed but I don't think it's because women want to be the man of the family. I think it is more of a commitment to be equal. Men do things that men didn't used to do and so do women. My son in law is the main cook of the family and does a ton of child care including baths and diapers. My husband rarely did either of those years ago and the only cooking he did was on the grill.

Answer 4

It changed the day we let women vote. Not that it's bad, but it surely has changed. I think that some women are abusing their rights, or lack thereof. If it's an all male school/club/whatever, it's not sexist, just tradition. We wouldn't dare let a boy join the Girl Scouts, or let a man join Oprah's book club. lol I think the change is for the better...for the most part. Some women think they can just $hit and walk all over society, not just men.

Answer 5

Women have always been the "man" of the family. It's the women who want to take over all the men's jobs and grow a pair. Women should be feminine not feminists.

Answer 6

Absolutely. American culture has embraced the women's lib movement in all sorts of ways, both good and not so good.

Job and career opportunities for women are far more open than they ever were. Women continue to make strides upwards (who would have believed Carly Fiorona would have held the corner office at HP 20 years ago?) in big business. Sexual harassment protection is stronger than it has ever been (not to say any mechanism is going to be flawlessly perfect).

But this has also coincided with the emasculation of the American husband. The great majority of media portrayals of the man of the household plays him as a buffoon, a fool who cannot make substantive decisions, who is aware of his own incompetence and never had any more backbone than Jello pudding. Consider "Everybody loves Raymond", "King of Queens" or even "Friends" to see what I would call the mass media's castration of men.

As a result, I see young men who have been influenced to abdicate any difficult role of authority from their junior high years upward, who are unwilling to stand on conviction and principle, who are alarmingly narcissistic in their obsession to avoid pain or difficulty at any cost - including their dignity, who will not lead a family if their lives depended on it (which it really does), who don't know how to be a husband to a wife, be a real father to their children, etc.

I also see the minority backlash - men who as a result of the decline in the culture swung the pendulum so far over they become tyrants and despots in their homes - and are proud of it because they see it as "reclaiming" the masculization of men.

This is just as tragic and sad, as the cruel caricature they build has just as stifling and damaging an effect on the family as the "good guy" without a backbone.

Great, insightful question.

Best to you.

Answer 7

I think most people agree families function better with a mother and a father. Both are necessary, they both add to the whole. A family without one or the other is handicapped. To the extent that modern women want families without spouses or want to emasculate their husbands I think it think it hurts society in general.

Answer 8

It's all John Lennon's fault..he started it all being the house daddy.
Seriously,and that was quite a while ago . I remember an article that Playboy did on him not too long before he was killed.
I found the link to the article I am referring to,John Lennon made it ok for men to have role reversals and house daddies.
the link to the article is below,from 1980
"Househusband" is the word that John Lennon coined and he proclaimed that he was forerunner of the wave of the future. He said this in the interview 1980.

Answer 9

To me today's society has weaker men than years ago. Men really wore the pants back in father's days. Single parents were so unheard of unless they were widowed.

Today you see so many single parents, there was no such thing as a dead beat father. Oh dead beat was another word back when our father's worked hard. Men were men. Still today there is men out there, it is more common for women to wear to pants
alone too.

Answer 10

You hit that nail on the head. The women want to wear the pants and the men want to wear the panties. It's certainly contributing to the down fall of our society

Answer 11

I think it's more like she HAS to be the man of the family. Alot of women are single parents like I was. I didn't want to be mother, father, house keeper and bread winner, but I had to.